Browsing by Subject "Canadian Literature"
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"I am not I": Late Modernism and Metafiction in Canadian Fiction
(2012-08-24)This dissertation argues that a number of works of Canadian fiction usually designated as modernist fit more properly into the category of “late modernism”: a category that has only recently begun to emerge as a bridge ... -
The Question as an Instrument of Nationalism: Interrogating the Nation in Earle Birney, Phyllis Webb, and Leonard Cohen
(2012-08-29)Through the study of selected works written by Earle Birney, Phyllis Webb, and Leonard Cohen, this thesis seeks to interrogate the wave of modern Canadian nationalism and culture construction that grew as a result of the ... -
Realizing the Refugee in Contemporary Canadian and Art
(2022-08-25)This dissertation joins the field of Critical Refugee Studies (CRS) in Canada to examine representations of refugees in contemporary Canadian literature and culture. Drawing on a wide range of literary, filmic, visual and ... -
Writing Left: The Emergence of Modernism in English Canadian Literature
(2011-08-18)This dissertation complicates conventional understandings of the emergence of modernism in Canadian cultural production, proposing instead a multiplicity of modernist practices that emerge through direct engagement with ...